tire

noun

1. A tier, row, or rank.

   “In posture to displode their second tire / Of thunder.”

verb

Etymology: From Middle English tire, from Old French tirer (“to draw or pull”), akin to English tear (“to rend”).

1. To seize, pull, and tear prey, as a hawk does.

   “Even as an empty eagle, sharp by fast, / Tires with her beak on feathers, flesh, and bone.”

   “I grieve myself / To think, when thou shalt be disedged by her / That now thou tirest on, how thy memory / Will then be pang'd by me.”

2. To seize, rend, or tear something as prey; to be fixed upon, or engaged with, anything.

   “and now doth gaſtly death With greedie talients gripe my bleeding hart, And like a Harpye tires on my life.”

   “Thus made she her remove, / And left wrath tyring on her son.”